I happen to have a copy of Acrobat which allows me to ‘save’ a Word document to a PDF file. But if you haven’t got this software, then there are various ways to do the same thing. Here is one:

doPDF6.0 installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to the doPDF free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

I get many visitors to my site about making ebooks into PDF files and on that page I list more ways in which you can create PDF Files